Go green: save greenbacks. Companies with green offices have an easier time recruiting and retaining employees, studies show. [News Source]

Warming relations with China. You wouldn't know it by the intense focus on health-care reform and on race over the past two weeks, but during about that same period Washington and Beijing made strides to bridge their divide over reducing greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

He protests too much: India is already going green. Hillary Clinton's meeting with Jairam Ramesh was an awkward moment in an otherwise smooth visit to India last month. The Indian environment minister lectured Clinton that India would not commit to cuts in its emissions of the gases that cause global warming. [News Source]

Senate should follow House’s lead and pass clean energy bill. The U.S. House of Representatives took a historic step to address America's economic, energy and climate challenges by passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). [News Source]

First nations fume over BCUC’s sudden coolness to green power. Several first nations have challenged the B.C. Utilities Commission for putting up a regulatory roadblock to development of wind and water power within their traditional territories. [News Source]

88 months and counting. Is the Vesta case merely a symbolic blip, or something more interesting? [News Source]

Securing sustainability for the future. The theme of the ACS 2009 National Meeting is “Chemistry and Global Security”. I find it heartening that we are acknowledging the potential threat. [News Source]